Display-holder.



PATENTED SEPT. 6, 1904.

0. A. DE LONG. DISPLAY HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. a. 1904,

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PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR A. DE LONG, OF \VILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO EAGLEPENCIL COMPANY, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

DISPLAY-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 769,592, datedSeptember 6, 1904,

Application filed March 3,1904. Serial No. 196,298. (No m del.)

To all whom, [it may concern.-

Be it known that LOSCAR A. DE Loam-a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Williamsport, in the county of Lycoming andState of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Display-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to portable display racks or holders for pens,pencils, pocketknives, and other articles; and it consists of a holdercomposed of a plurality of sections or blocks provided with pockets orreceptacles to receive the ends of the pencils or other artieles to bedisplayed, said blocks when folded together lying side by side in theform of a sectional rectangular block and being united all at the sameend each to the other by a hinge between the contiguous parallel edgesof adjoining blocks, as hereinafter shown and described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of adisplay-holder embodying my invention, the display sections or blocksinthis instance six in numberbc ing folded together side by side in themost compact form for transportation. Fig. 2. is a longitudinal verticalsection of one of the blocks. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the holder,showing the blocks unfolded and spread apart so as to extend radiallyfrom a common center.

The display-blocks-six in number in this instance are indicated at A.They may be of any suitable construction and material and are providedeach with a series of vertical pockets (4 of suitable shape andconstruction to receive and hold the pencils, pens, pocketknives, orother articles to be displayed. In this instance they are designed forpencils, one of which is shown at B.

The blocks or sections A are shownin Fig. 1 folded together so as to beside by side and in parallelism, forming when thus assembled a sectionalblock of rectangular contour. The sections A are jointed together all atthe same end by a strip of suitable flexible or pliable material C,textile or otherwise, which is pasted or glued to one end of theassembled blocks A, as seen in Fig. 1. The sections A when thusconnected can be unfolded and swung apart upon their hinges in order toprovide a display arrangement. One arrangement of the sections for thispurpose is shown in Fig. 3, wherein the hinged ends of the sections Adescribe a hexagonal figure, from which the sections themselves radiate,thus forming a pleasing display rack or holder.

I do not limit myself to the particular number of sections A employed. 1have shown the sections A as capable of supporting each a dozen pencils;but obviously the number of pockets with which the sections are providedcan be varied at pleasure.

\VhatI claim herein as new and of my own invention is as follows:

The display holder or rack consisting of sections or blocks providedwith pockets for reception of the pens, pencils, poclzet-lmives or thelike, to be displayed, adapted to lie side by side when folded together,and a pliable strip O, applied and secured to one end of the assembledsections and forming the flexible bond of union between them.

Signed at New York this 23d day of J anuary, 190%.

, OSCAR A. DE LONG.

\Vitnesses:

F. IV. BARKER, FREDERICK C. BONNY.

